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Now that I've got my new laptop set up, I figured I should look at the age of my backups. I have an external (network or USB) 160 gb drive for that, and I decided to move it from a net drive to a usb drive with this machine. That was fine, except that all my files and directories were giving me "permission denied" errors. I had a brief moment of panic, thinking I'd lost my backups - but thenit ocurred to me that I should see who owned the files. Dohh - that was the problem. After I swapped ownership, all was well. Sometimes, the problems are blindingly simple...
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